Health impact of motorised trips that could be replaced by walking
Author(s) -
Marta Olabarría,
Katherine Pérez,
Elena SantamariñaRubio,
Ana M. Novoa,
Francesca Racioppi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/cks015
Subject(s) - trips architecture , demography , medicine , physical activity , population , foot (prosody) , environmental health , geography , gerontology , physical therapy , transport engineering , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , sociology
We aimed to quantify the number of women and men, in Catalonia, among those not achieving physical activity recommendations, making short motorized trips which could have been made on foot, and to estimate the annual economic benefit due to reducing mortality as a result of replacing one short, daily, motorized journey with walking.
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